If early humans crafted a hammer or an axe from metal for example. How on earth did they craft the first tool that was used to create that hammer or axe. I know you can create a hammer from natural material like stone and an axe from a sharp piece of stone but how did they forge the first metal tools and even weapons?
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If you like anime, Dr. Stone is great at explaining the science of human advancement. Covers alot of metal work in season 1 and 2.
This video from the Primitive Technology series on YouTube shows how one can make basic iron tools from bacteria that contain iron particles. Sounds crazy I know, but it’s completely legitimate.
YouTube link https://youtu.be/dhW4XFGQB4o
11:35 minutes long.
I’ve seen someone do it by extracting iron from limestone, then melting that iron in a mud furnace and pouring it into clay moulds. Or something along those lines.
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Cast a rough shape and then rub it against a hard stone to get the final shape/sharpness. You can theoretically even hammer forge using stones, after all metal heated up gets much softer and pliable.
Fire first, it all starts with fire (which is why no underwater civilizations).
Fire melts things, those things get poured into shapes in stone, then other stone is used to sharpen or bend metal.
Everything evolves from the prior.
To understand how the process works and Experience it.
You can try playing this game called ” Factorio”
It’s really fun and you learn a lot in the game.
From memory if you have 2 Bronze Age buildings, 1200 Gold and 2000 Food you can advance to the Iron Age and then you can make stuff out of iron.
This makes me realize how difficult it is to rebuild civilization without all the cumulated knowledge mankind built over millennia.
You dig up a chunk of raw copper and hit it with a rock until it’s in the shape of a hammer. Then you use your copper hammer to make more copper tools.
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